Rhombus Media is renowned the world over for its performing arts programs, feature films and drama series. Now in its 27th year, Rhombus is recognized for its consistently high-quality productions which are acclaimed by critics and audiences alike.
Rhombus has received numerous honours at many prestigious international festivals: an Academy Award for best original score on The Red Violin, seven Emmy awards - five International Emmys and two Primetime Emmys - resulting in trophies for the Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach, The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin, September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill, Le Dortoir, Pictures on The Edge, and Concerto!; five Grammy nominations; two Fipa d'or awards and literally dozens of others at festivals in Cannes, Berlin, San Sebastian, Sydney, New York, San Francisco, Toronto, Banff, Prague, and the Golden Rose of Montreux.
Rhombus Media started in 1979 at the York University Film Department, when Barbara Willis Sweete and Niv Fichman created Opus One, Number One, a documentary short that established the company's early musical direction. Larry Weinstein joined soon after, and the trio have since produced and directed more than one hundred and fifty films including: Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill, Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach, The Red Violin, Don Giovanni Unmasked and Beethoven's Hair.
Rhombus International, founded in 1987 by Sheena MacDonald, oversees the distribution and foreign co-production of all Rhombus Media productions as well as other select world-class programs. Rhombus has co-produced its films with many international partners, including all of the major public television networks and classical record labels.

Born in La Rochelle in 1947, Bernard Giraudeau joined the French navy in 1962. In 1970, he was admitted to the Drama Conservatory and graduated with a first prize in classical and modern acting. He made his screen debut in 1973 in two films by José Giovanni. During the early 80s, he was often typecast as a seducer in popular comedies (Et la tendresse? Bordel!, Viens chez moi, j'habite chez une copine, La Boum, Rue Barbare) and commercial dramas, L'Année des méduses, Les Spécialistes). At the urging of director Ettore Scola (who cast him in his 1981 film, Passione d'amore), Giraudeau made his directing debut with the 1988 telefilm, La Face de l'ogre, which was followed by two theatrical features, L'Autre (1990), adapted from a book by Andrée Chedid, and Les Caprice d'un fleuve (1996), an ambitious period drama shot in Senegal. In 1992, he made the documentary, La Transamazonienne. Un ami chilien (2000) and Esquisses philippines (2003) completed a documentary trilogy on the theme of travel and discovery. In the meantime, his acting range continued to grow: the Abbey de Vilecourt in Patrice Leconte's Ridicule (1996), a sophisticated businessman in Bernard Rapp's Une affaire de goût (2000), a homosexual seducer in François Ozon's Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes. In 2003, he was seen in Claude Miller's Petite Lili, Raoul Ruiz's Ce jour-là, Claire Devers's Les Marins perdus and Thomas Vincent's Je suis un assassin in 2004.